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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT YV. SCOTT, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONEt HALF TO LOUIS N. D. WILLIAMS, OF SAME PLACE.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 410,031, dated August 27, 1889.k

Application filed May 16, 1889. Serial No. 310,964. (Specimens.)

To alwhom t may concern;

BeA it known that I, ROBERT W. SCOTT, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have inyented an Improved Narrowed Knitted Web, of

which the following is a specification.

My invention consists of a narrowed knitted web, which can be more' readilyproduced than a web narrowed in the ordinary way,

ro and which is more acceptable than the ordinary narrowed web, in that the narrowingstitches are not stretched and weakened-as -by the insertion of transfer-points-in edecting the narrowing operation.

i 5 In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an exaggerated diagram illustrating part of a knitted web narrowed in the ordinary way. Fig. 2 is a diagram illustrating the method of narrowing such a web. Fig. 3 is a diagraln zo similar to Fig. l, but illustrating a knitted web narrowed in accordance with, my invention; and Fig. 4 is a diagram similar to Fig. 2, but illustrating the method of producing y .my improved narrowed web.

Ordinarily in narrowing a knitted web produced upon a machine having opposite needle-beds A and B, as shown, for instance, in Fig. 2, it is the usual practice to transfer the stitch from the end acting needle of one row 3o to the next needle of the same row, stitches being .transferred first on one rowand then on the other until the desired narrowing has been effected. Thus, supposing the. firsttransfer to be effected from the needle x of the row 3 5 A to the next needle of the same row, thc next transfer would be from the needle y of the row B to the next needle y of that row, the third transfer being from the needle oc to the needle 002, and the fourth from the needle The eifect of In carrying out my invention I transfer a stitch from the end needle of one row to the adjacent end needle of the opposite row, instead of transferring from the needle of one row to the next needle of the same row, as

usual. Thus, supposing the diagram Fig.4 to

represent part of the two rows of needles of the machine, the first transfer will be from the needle a; of the ro-w A to the needle 'y of the row B, the next transfer being from said needley 6o to the needle `tv `of the row A, the next transfer from said needle to the needle y of the row B, and so on. By this means, instead of having two rows of narrowings side by side, by dropping wales on opposite sides of the central line alternately and merging each dropped Wale into the outer-standing wale next to it Iv produce a knitted web in which each wale a which is dropped merges into a standing wale b across the dividing-line w, 7o

4and this Wale b is the next wale -to be dropped,

and merges into the adjacent standing Wale a, and so on, as shown in Fig. 3, narrowings vthus produced presenting a more acceptable appearance than the usual narrowings, as the narrowing loops or stitches are not stretched or weakened in the transfer, the stitch to be dropped being passed directly from one neey dle to the other without the use of the usual transfer points or pickers, this method of op- 8o eration forming the subject of a separate application, Serial N o. 310,965, filed by me, and bearing even date herewith.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent- A knit-ted web narrowed by the merging of walesV one into another, the standing wale into which a droppedwale is merged itself constituting the next dropped wale, substantially asspecilied.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ROBERT w. sco'r'r.

VVtnes'ses:

WILLIAM D. CONNER, HARRY SMITH. 

